International stories
Cameroon: Cooking classes grow healthier kids
In the isolated region of far western Cameroon, village women could see that their children were getting sick too...
FABBAs helps to transform Ugandan slum school
It might not look like a treasure chest. But the 40 foot shipping container outside the only school in Kamwokya slum...
Fiji: HK kids give village school a hand up
Behind the perfect beaches and five star resorts, much of Fiji’s rural population lives in poverty, with many unable to...
Hearts and Hands: Joining hands with China’s deaf artisans
Lei Mei, of China, was 25 when she suddenly lost her hearing. She’s not sure exactly how it happened,...
Philippines: Healing after Haiyan
Two families in Barangay Bacabac, Philippines were huddled together in a village building as the worst typhoon in the country’s...
Kenya: Korogocho’s trash-pickers
At first, the gigantic garbage dump outside Korogocho slum in Kenya looks as you’d expect: hideous, grey mountains of...
Morgan Stanley investing in Children
“The majority of schools in rural Nepal are inadequately resourced,” says the NGO, First Steps Himalaya. “Children often have to sit...
Christmas cards – Peru
“Those were the years of violence,” said Juliana, a Peruvian woman who works with craft collective Kuyanakuy. She reflected on...
Not just a piece of cloth
Extreme taboo surrounds the process of menstruation in some parts of India, says local NGO, Goonj. What options do women have, then,...
